Vikram Seth Quotes

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• Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
• I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
• I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
• I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live…
• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
• I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
• I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
• I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much…
• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work…
• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on…
• I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
• I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
• I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
• You can talk good ideas out of existence.
• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

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